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Rackspace Cloud Servers vs RamNode: What are the differences?
What is Rackspace Cloud Servers? Powerful Linux and Windows servers in minutes. Cloud Servers is based on OpenStack, the open and scalable operating system for building public and private clouds. With the open cloud, you get reliable cloud hosting, without locking your data into one proprietary platform.
What is RamNode? High Performance SSD and SSD-Cached VPSs. You won't find a better performing VPS anywhere else. Our SSD and SSD-Cached VPSs are the best in the industry. We implement some of the most cutting edge systems and configurations to ensure your VPS meets and exceeds your expectations.
Rackspace Cloud Servers and RamNode can be primarily classified as "Cloud Hosting" tools.
Some of the features offered by Rackspace Cloud Servers are:
- 100% power and network uptime guarantee
- Cloud choice- We run the world’s largest open cloud, giving you flexibility, choice, and no vendor lock-in. That means your workloads are portable. Host them with any open cloud vendor—or even in your own data center.
- Technical expertise- We employ more Red Hat® Certified Engineers than any other hosting company. And over 100 Rackspace employees have earned the title of Microsoft® Certified Professional.
On the other hand, RamNode provides the following key features:
- Performance I/O
- Powerful CPUs
- Tier-1 Network
"Quick and reliable cloud servers" is the primary reason why developers consider Rackspace Cloud Servers over the competitors, whereas "Cost effective" was stated as the key factor in picking RamNode.
Most bioinformatics shops nowadays are hosting on AWS or Azure, since they have HIPAA tiers and offer enterprise SLA contracts. Meanwhile Heroku hasn't historically supported HIPAA. Rackspace and Google Cloud would be other hosting providers we would consider, but we just don't get requests for them. So, we mostly focus on AWS and Azure support.
Pros of Rackspace Cloud Servers
- Quick and reliable cloud servers42
- Great customer support29
- SSDs20
- Uses OpenStack10
- Windows server 2012 possible2
- Easy integration with Github2
- Ubuntu1
- Ssh access1
Pros of RamNode
- SSH root access1
- Affordable1